Anthony Burgess Quotes About Literature
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Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.
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Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.
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A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.
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With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.
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As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.
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That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.
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